Welcome

Introduction

Luminometers are used to measure the light intensity of solutions or surfaces. As members of the 2015 Carnegie Mellon iGEM team our project involves constructing a BioLight (a group of cells which can use environmental substrates to produce light without needed electricity). In order to assess the light produced from our modified e. coli cells, we constructed a luminometer using an arduino and a light dependent photoresistor.

Using open source python and arduino libraries we were able to construct a device that reads data from a photoresistor, converts the data into a meaningful way to assess effectiveness of a light source, and then wirelessly pushes the data to a server where it can be saved and viewed in the future. We also did some data processing and modification on the raw data from the device in order to make it more useful for the general user.

As our device was constructed entirely with open source software, we wished to give back to the scientific and technical community. Thus we decided to put our hardware schematics and codebase online. This will enable any user or iGEM team to construct their own luminometer and use it in their experiments.

We hope you enjoy using our product as much as we liked making it. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, concerns, bug reports, or any suggestions as to how we can improve our device or web interface.